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5.0 out of 5 stars
That Long Lone Place, July 20, 2000
By A Customer
This review is from: On the Other Ocean (Audio CD)
Behrman's prarie music, not so abstract, drones as though we floated over sand. It's that strange thing, America, roams on the flatness of the land as though it could never end. Its a sound landscape that meditates on hope, draws slowly out like breathe. In the abstract is the sound pure and representing nothing but its internal logic, the music - if in fact that is what it is, saturates the listening, often just a humming monotone - beautiful is. Is beautiful. Why should music hope? Is it finding the name of the place in a place uncertain it can loose, but a music certain it will not loose itself steadied by it's own sort of Hebrewic Americanism? Maybe that's the solemn generating form, without representation or actual narrative concern. And can music be abstract, well perhaps.
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